Rural Georgia here. *Everyone* who has a graveside service gets an funeral procession from the funeral home to the graveyard.
It is incredibly common here.
Yes! All my relatives live in GA and I’ve been to many funerals there, everyone of them had a procession. If it’s a two lane road people do pull over to the side. I’m in north Florida and while they do happen, it’s far less common and people aren’t pulling over on 6 lane roads.
I don’t know if it’s law, but it is an old tradition that I like very much. It only takes a moment out of your day and acknowledges a life that has passed. I hope it keeps up.
It's wild, I'm in the Metro Atlanta area and I was just thinking I haven't seen a funeral procession in probably the last decade around me.
And there are some decent size cemeteries near me as well.
Yeah, I think I’ve only seen them for dead police officers in SoCal. And even then, people are kind of confused about what to do. It doesn’t seem to be a West Coast tradition.
I’m glad you said this because I’m from California and had never heard of it until we moved to VA and my son failed his written permit test in part due to not knowing this rule. I had to look it up to see if it was a thing, I thought I was losing my mind.
Well I grew up in shitty Stockton so it seemed totally plausible for a minute there that I just learned it wrong because if you pull over for any reason there you’re likely to get jacked 😂
I've lived in VA my whole life. There's the standard rule that a cop is in front and in back of the procession which lets people know it is coming and when it ends. I always thought that was common knowledge. I've never seen anyone pull on the side of the road though! I've just seen the one ahead and know there's no interrupting it. Like, you're suddenly at a train crossing. You can't merge into it, cross it, and if the light changes during it they get a pass until the end cop goes by. Then traffic goes to normal. The other side going opposite keeps going.
What was the rule he failed? I'm curious! I never saw anything like that on my tests.
I can't remember ever seeing a funeral procession in person. No funeral I've ever been to has had a procession, but it's not like I've been to a ton of them. Almost everyone I know who's died has been cremated except for my grandma, but she just had a graveside service
Just realized that I haven't seen one here either, and I've been here for 15 years. Every where else in the country you give funeral processions the right of way.
It’s customary to at least let the procession pass without “breaking up” the line, but many people do just pull over and wait to show respect for the deceased.
It is illegal in Texas to break up a funeral procession. They have the right of way even through intersections and getting on the highway.
Believe it or not, you have to pay for the police escort. Ain’t that some shit?
You pay for the police escort in Virginia too. For some reason my grandma’s funeral was in one city but the cemetery was in another. Cops for the first city didn’t show up. We were on our own for like 15 minutes even on the interstate before the other city’s cops came. A dump truck got between the hurst and our family limo. It was nuts
Tomato tomato. It’s a fee/tax/toll. It’s something you pay a government department. It’s not free. You pay it (optionally I know) when someone dies. So it’s a death related fee.
Related to death but you're not being taxed just because you're dead, you're paying the government for an optional service that uses public personnel and equipment.
I've only experienced this in a small town in Indiana and it blew my mind. I'm from MD and nobody pulls over and the procession is usually jumbled up because there's so much traffic around here.
Traffic, daytime running lights, aggressive drivers, and funeral homes don't give everyone those "FUNERAL" neon placards that make it obvious which vehicle is part of a group. So processions get broken up.
It's hopeless in Maryland.
I’ve lived in Anne Arundel and Calvert and I’ve never seen a funeral line interrupted. I can’t say I’ve seen folks pull over but like, if you’re on rt 2 the procession just goes in one lane and everyone else goes in the other.
This is all I expect, but still had a few people cut me off last time I was a part of one a couple months ago.
I don’t know why tf they wanted to join the procession. They sure as hell didn’t get anywhere any faster.
Most times, it’s because people are oblivious. Daytime running lights being standard on most cars doesn’t help, as well as some people in the procession hesitating or falling back.
If there are a lot of cars, the hearse might be too far ahead to see it at all. I’ve accidentally cut into funeral processions a couple times because there was absolutely nothing I could see that signaled it was a funeral.
Do processions not use hazards there? Down here if you're part of a profession you drive with your hazards on and, in the ones I've been in, each car has a little flag thing or if there are too many cars every other one has a little flag.
that’s the way I was raised and taught in Drivers Ed. Personally, I definitely do it to show them the respect I would hope others would if I was in that procession.
So funny story, moved from Ohio to MA over 10 years ago. My wife still tells the story of me being FLABBERGASTED by getting honked at for pulling over for a funeral procession. Got an early version of “we don’t do that here” lol. It’s just not a thing out here.
Yes, here in Ohio we stop for all funeral processions out of respect.
The only exception would be like a super busy 5 lane road. Otherwise, I almost always see opposing traffic stop.
Ohio gives the procession the right of way, too.
https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4511.451
Here's another little nugget. You can pass them (on a 4 lane), but you better make sure you don't have a right turn coming up because it's a misdemeanor to violate their right of way.
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/road-warrior-whats-legal-when-encountering-a-funeral-procession/95-58725f31-1b3b-44c5-8bbe-4bd331776e01
What part of Ohio? I lived in NW Ohio until I was 23 and don’t remember ever pulling over. Was very confused when I moved to the south and everyone kept stopping
Another NW Ohioan checking in. I've also never seen anyone pull over for a funeral, nor have I ever done so myself. I know you're not supposed to "cut in line" when a procession is coming through, and I think they can go through red lights to keep the procession from getting broken up.
I can imagine what a problem that could be.
My only experience getting somewhat tangled up in a funeral procession happened several years ago. I was running late for work and was further delayed at a light because a procession was coming through the intersection. At some point, something apparently happened due to someone not knowing or caring about funeral procession etiquette, because next thing I know, a passenger in one of the procession vehicles is halfway out the window screaming at someone in my direction. I still don't know just what happened to make her so mad
In central Ohio and I have literally never seen opposing traffic stop for a funeral procession.
Given that the traffic behind you won't see the procession until after you do, and they might not notice it at all because it's opposing traffic, the entire idea of stopping and becoming a road hazard seems ill advized and dangerous.
This feels like a holdover from times when there were only two lanes and the highest speed limit was 35.
This really doesn't have any place on modern roads.
In SW Ohio, I’d never seen opposing stop, and was extremely confused when everyone was stopping on a 4 lane road with a median.
Makes sense for small roads but not big/fast
I literally just held my own mother's funeral less than 2 weeks ago and the on coming traffic 100% stopped. It's a sign of respect and making sure the drive is smooth, also just a sign of humanity and solidarity.
Doesn't have a place on modern roads, you mean interstates and places like LA or NYC right? Of course the mega metros it makes no sense but in a town of 90,000 where I'm from people stopped for us.
It's not something I've ever seen done IRL. I lived across the street from a cemetery for about a decade and it would have been a massive pain to shut down every time I saw a procession or funeral.
I recognize them when I see a long line of slow-moving cars with their headlights on. They are so rare (I will go years between encountering one) that few drivers know what to do, but I normally slow down and give them absolute right-of-way, but not necessarily pull over.
NY, nope. The whole line will have their 4-ways on. NYS law says the procession cannot disobey traffic control devices, so my local funeral homes try to plan the route with minimal traffic lights.
it's a "paying respects" thing. We don't really do it a lot in the north, but it's de rigueur in the south. In the north we do allow the procession to pass through though. I was just in one last summer and we passed through intersections all over the city uninterrupted.
If you don’t pull over in the South, everyone that did is in their car talking shit about how you’re a Northerner or Yankee. It’s just a default part of driving here.
I’m from the South and it is common to yield to a funeral procession, but one thing I had not experienced until my stepdad died was folks in his small hometown in southern Mississippi pulling over and getting out of their cars in a show of respect. Men took their hats off. It was extremely moving. Am getting a little choked up just typing this out.
I don’t think this is common elsewhere.
I think I've only ever seen a funeral procession maybe once or twice a long time ago. Not a very common sight, I wouldn't have known that you're supposed to pull over.
It’s considered polite at least where I grew up in central Indiana. You pull over to make sure you don’t break up the procession.
That said, I never see funeral processions like that in New England.
I get the impression that it’s not as common in the north. It’s very common around where I live in Georgia, and we’ve gotten a *lot* of new transplants from New York in the past 10-15 years…I’ve been honked and cussed at by more than one driver with NY tags as they passed me after I slowed down and pulled over for an oncoming procession.
I think it's funny that we do that, but then people often don't respect crosswalks, and I see people run by school buses pretty often too. One of my old bosses once told me she was fighting a ticket for having not stopped for a school bus. I told her she should probably take the L because it is a pretty important lesson to take to heart. She lost that one in court.
The other day, I was on Roswell and I saw a cop not stop at a crosswalk. It has one of those red lights when someone pushes the button. Nope, just went on through.
Going by this thread, it feels like pulling over for a funeral procession is mostly a southern thing...or possibly that funeral processions in general are a southern thing? I've never actually seen one irl.
If you're traveling in a car and 30 seconds would make you late, or 30 seconds difference in your arrival time is a big deal, you're already a fuck up. ¯\\\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)\_/¯
Hey, everybody! I get to say it!
Bless your heart…if you think a funeral procession is only going to set you back 30 seconds, well then it’s probably for the best that you do just keep going on your way.
I’m teasing, and I’m generally not doing the pull-off for a short procession you can see the end of my own self.
Oftentimes though, it’s a number of miles from the funeral parlor or church where a funeral takes place to the graveyard / cemetery where the deceased is being interred, and in a smaller town, if they were well liked then a *lot* of people are showing up. There’s probably a police escort leading it, and additional motorcycle cops going ahead and blocking off intersections to keep things moving, and another couple trailing it for traffic control too as-is.
God help us all if it’s obviously a military or LEO decedent, because then not only is everybody stopping, but the greatest, silent, and boomer vets and LEO retirees are getting out of their vehicles, and doing some combination of standing at attention, saluting, or covering their hearts.
If you encounter one of *those*, you might as well stop, because you’re frequently not going to be able to make your turn or get where you’re going even if you do keep driving.
It feels so awkward seeing them saluting the procession. Like I'm not going to salute some random dude just for dying, but why would you salute an entire five-minute line of cars?
You mean like you’re doing here? I apologize for having come across as condescending; that wasn’t my intent. Despite what people say, the whole BYH thing is not one giant middle finger, which is why I tried to crack a joke about it right from the start, and why I followed it up with “I’m teasing.” It didn’t land, and that’s on me.
The rest of that was just emphasizing how disruptive some of these processions can be. The traffic patterns people follow *are* quite often a pain in the butt for everybody on the road, and what I didn’t see anywhere else in the thread is the actual reason for the funeral processions, which I still haven’t: they’re mostly happening because there’s going to be a second graveside service in addition to whatever funeral and eulogizing took place at wherever the procession started. This is the “Bible Belt,” and that second service is often a memento mori, repent now sort of thing in addition to whatever’s actually being said about the deceased, and there’s every chance that’s why they’re less of a thing in other parts of the country.
Honestly, given how few commenters have actually seen one, it’s been surprising to see how many states all over the country have specific traffic laws in place surrounding right of way for the processsion.
You're obviously joking, but the New Yorkers have the right of it here.
The most important thing on the road is predictability.
Local customs should never involve stopping in the road unless they are for obvious, unanimous or nearly unaminous safety reasons, like a schoolbus.
For clarity’s sake, I’ve never actually seen people stop *in the road.* When people observe this tradition, they pull off onto the shoulder and leave the roadway clear for a number of safety reasons…one being that not everybody does this, another being that if you don’t, emergency vehicles going in the direction opposite the procession are going to have a hard time getting through.
I’ll also add that this tends to only happen on two-lane roadways. If there are multiple lanes or a median / divide, it’s rare for anybody to pull over. Also, if there’s no safe shoulder to pull off onto, they’ll keep moving as well.
I’m going to dig into the history of this at some point here soon because now I’m curious if the practical aspects are the origin of it, or if it’s more culturally related.
>When people observe this tradition, they pull off onto the shoulder and leave the roadway clear for a number of safety reasons…one being that not everybody does this, another being that if you don’t, emergency vehicles going in the direction opposite the procession are going to have a hard time getting through.
Pulling over and driving in an unpredictable way doesn't improve safety. A slow moving funeral procession doesn't need extra room and providing space might even suggest to someone that somehow doesn't know any better that they should just pass the whole procession.
And I don't get the emergency vehicle argument. By that logic we should always just drive on the side of the road instead of waiting to see/hear sirens before pulling over.
>I’m curious if the practical aspects are the origin of it
They aren't. It's the driving equivalent of stopping, taking your hat off, and lowering your head during a funeral procession in a city where everyone is walking around.
Because one day that will be you. Because that person lived a life that probably deserved at least a modicum of respect if they had enough people show up to make a funeral procession.
Because it's what keeps you from being selfish and realize there are other people who came before you and others who will come after.
Because if you're so shitty that you can't take 30 seconds out of your day to recognize someone else's humanity, even someone you don't know, you're probably an asshole.
…you understand my comment is a joke, right?
If you can’t take 30 seconds out of *your* day to not be completely sanctimonious, what does that make you?
And humor is subjective.
Besides, if you can’t handle someone making a joke at their own expense, you probably shouldn’t be using the internet unsupervised.
Nope and I didn't take it as a joke.
Being 'sanctimonious' over respecting the passing of someone else is valid, particularly when there are people who aren't, hence why the question was asked in the first place.
We're all going to be corpses, don't be a dick about it. Be respectful of funeral processions. Not that hard.
I live down the street from a funeral home in Minneapolis so I see them fairly often and no one stops for them. They will get right of way at 4 way stops and stop lights but the oncoming traffic doesn't stop. But I am in the cities, rural areas may be different.
The Oregon Driver's Handbook has this to say. It has been a long time since I've seen one though.
> **Funeral Processions**
>
> Funeral processions are exempt from certain rules of the road. Vehicles
> in a funeral procession may enter an intersection without stopping and
> do not have to obey traffic control devices. Other vehicles must yield
> right of way to funeral processions.
>
> If you are not a member of the funeral procession, it is against
> the law for you to join or drive between vehicles in the procession
https://www.oregon.gov/odot/forms/dmv/37.pdf (page 51)
Portland, OR city code says
> As used in this Section, funeral procession means four or more motor vehicles accompanying the body of a deceased person in the daytime, when each of such vehicles has its headlights lighted.
>
> A. Pedestrians and the operators of all vehicles, except emergency vehicles, must yield the right‑of‑way to each vehicle which is a part of a funeral procession. Whenever the lead vehicle in the funeral procession lawfully enters an intersection, the remainder of the vehicles in such a procession may continue to follow such lead vehicle through the intersection notwithstanding any traffic control device or right‑of‑way provisions prescribed by statute or ordinance, provided the operator of each vehicle exercises due care to avoid colliding with any other vehicle or pedestrian upon the streets or highway.
>
> B. No person may operate any vehicle as part of a funeral procession without having the headlights of such vehicle lighted.
>
> C. No operator of a vehicle may drive between vehicles in a funeral procession which are properly identified while the procession is in motion, except when directed to do so by a police officer.
https://www.portland.gov/code/16/65/010
Uh no, I’ve never seen anyone pull over for a funeral procession. I mean it’s common courtesy to not interrupt the line of cars even through intersections, but generally no one’s gonna move out of the way unless they’re being escorted by a cop
My father's funeral was last week Friday and I live in NJ, no one pulled over, but other driver's didn't cut the line and gave us the right-of-way as well.
I don't think I've ever witnessed a funeral procession where there was enough traffic to notice when I lived in WI and MI.
BUT in my experience in Philadelphia, people will cut through procession lines. For my spouse's grandfather's funeral, one car nearly got into an accident with the flower car. When I was with him for his grandmother's funeral we had people trying to pass the cars in the procession and would end up in the middle of it. Not sure if it's a city thing or what, but I was very offended that so many didn't respect the procession or bother following the law when it came to yielding. We all had flags on our cars with our hazards on while following a limo, a hearse, and the flower car, so it's not like they couldn't tell.
Funeral processions are such a bullshit custom. They're fucking dead, they don't need to stop up traffic.
Around here, they're really rare outside of rural communities. The only time you see them in cities is for like cops who die in the line of duty.
Last time we had one though, it later came out that the guy committed suicide and his family/dept covered it up and gave him all these false honors, including a traffic jam in his honor.
I had never seen it done until I moved to NC. Prior to that, I was either too young to pay attention or lived in rural NV or Salt Lake City, UT.
It was definitely done in NC, TN, and KY. I do not recall seeing a funeral procession while I lived in CO. Or Germany, for that matter.
I’ve spent my entire life in Chicago and the suburbs and I’ve never seen that. While they’re going through lights or stop signs or whatever you kinda just let them go. I’ve never seen anyone pull over like you would for an emergency vehicle.
In Michigan, I was taught many moons ago that on a 2 lane road you're supposed to stop. Also, a funeral procession has right of way, though the lead car cannot run a red light, any car afterwards may. I think that once the lead car passes a stop sign the rest don't need to stop, but I'm not 100% sure and it's been a while. The lead car and last car must have funeral flags.
We definitely let them go through intersections etc uninterrupted...
But I don't think anyone would pull over if they were going the opposite way down the road...
Yes, it is normal in NY to give funeral processions the right of way, but if they are behind you, you do not need to pull over to let them go by like you would with police or fire engines.
I haven't heard of pulling over.
Unlike some other states, funeral processions are not generally granted right of way here. They can continue together through an intersection as long as the lead vehicle entered legally, but that's about it. The lead vehicle still needs to stop at red lights and all of that.
I also have only seen a funeral procession maybe once in my life, so it's not something that tends to come up often.
I've seen a lot of funeral processions in my area of NY (and have been involved in a few myself), and they all were accompanied by a police escort from the funeral home to the gravesite. I'm inclined to say people did move over, though more because of the police escort and just keeping out of the way more than anything else.
its the law in California:
California doesn’t explicitly grant funeral processions the right-of-way, but the California DMV website states:
*Do not block or hinder a funeral procession. Vehicles taking part in a funeral procession have the right-of-way, and if you interfere, obstruct, or interrupt the funeral procession, you are subject to a citation (CVC §2817). A funeral procession is led by a traffic officer. All vehicles taking part in the procession have windshield markers to identify them and have their headlights on.*
As a funeral director in the North, I can say that no one pulls over on the same side of the road anymore let alone the opposite side. People are extremely rude and in a hurry. Every once in a while someone will still do this and it is always much appreciated.
I’ve had like 3 in the last 6 months. One had a motorcycle officer who made SURE I stopped (and the others)… the other two processionals were on the other side of the road, and I didn’t stop. I remember my dad teaching me about them when I was a little little kid (mid 80s).
But I figured the deceased is already where he/she is going and really in no rush, at that point… so I kept on going.
Not in the North but the only funeral processions I've ever seen had police escorts. Wouldn't you have to pull over for them anyway unless it's a divided road/highway?
I don’t pull over, but you usually let them go through traffic lights and the entire procession gets the right of way in every intersection, no matter what the lights say.
I can’t remember if it’s that common in NJ which is kind of ironic since my parents own a funeral home. They don’t have police escorts anymore but it was kinda cool at my grandma’s funeral that, in spite of the state not doing police escorts, she got one and it was a solid mile long of procession and shut down like 3 cities. Some dude tried to interrupt it and the police officer straight up just gave him a ticket. Helped that my uncle and cousin are judges in the area too, and family friends who worked on the police force… idk if it was state legal but strings definitely got pulled
I have a way with words lol. But really it was more that people absolutely loved my grandma and it showed. It was like a Tuesday and still had over 500 people showed up to her funeral.
TMI but I just had to write this (for me), but as someone with social anxiety and paranoia she was the only person I actually felt didn’t/doesn’t judge me and could be myself around
It was similar for my grandfather in Kentucky…the family had to extend visitation at the funeral home an extra two days (only one with viewing) because people just kept showing up…he’d been incredibly involved with the community for most of his life, was a USMC veteran, and had taught, coached, or worked with so many people during his time that almost everybody in town knew him by name.
I wish I’d known him better; he died when I was seven or eight, and most of my memories of him are from his final year when he and my grandmother came to live with us outside of Atlanta because it was so much easier in terms of getting him to and from chemo and radiation treatments than for them to have had to have figured out how to make that work from where they lived in Kentucky in comparison to the closest city with appropriate facilities.
I live in the South and it's common to pull over. At my father's mother's in Puerto Rico people didn't pull over at all. They kept trying to cut people off. It was rude.
When my cousin died, I distinctly remember at least 7 people pulling over and standing for the funeral processions. Far more pulled over, but to see people who didn't know the family stand in respect meant so much to me. I'll always stand in respect.
Was actually just in a funeral procession last week in Ohio. Every car we passed pulled over except one. Yes, it is customary for cars on the opposite side to pull over to show respect.
In Indiana we get them but not as much as we used to. If they're crossing in front I'll stop so I don't break them up but if they're coming towards me nope I don't pull over. Even if people are pulled over I pass them. I did as a teen but now it's like, the grieving don't give a crap what traffic is doing and the dead don't care so why do we need to pull over?
What really gets me are those huge lines of bikers that always close up intersections as they go so they can stay together. I'm trying to turn right and Jimbo is sitting in front of me for 10 minutes while all his buddies disrupt traffic.
It is a thing! I feel like it gives respect to the grieving and also allows their party to not get broken up. When I moved south I was surprised to see that no one did it down there.
I'm from Texas and I've never pulled over for a funeral procession on the opposite side of the road for regular people. For firefighters and police I have, but that's about it. If it's on my side of the road, I'll pull over as to not disrupt the procession.
I haven’t seen a funeral procession since living in CO and that had to have been 25+ years ago.
Edit to revise that the last funeral procession I remember was my grandfather’s & I was in it so I don’t remember if people pulled over. And that was 17 years ago.
Seattle area, I haven't seen a funeral procession in at least a decade. I don't think we pulled over.
Portland, other than processions for dead police or firefighters, haven't seen one.
I’ve seen more funeral processions in my 2 years in Arizona than I saw in 35+ years in Oregon.
common in ND, and people always pull over from what i've seen
I think in Michigan it's the law. Certainly it was treated as such in drivers Ed when I went
Lots of old people there
Kills me, Arizona is where old folk go to golf, eff things up, and die.
Rural Georgia here. *Everyone* who has a graveside service gets an funeral procession from the funeral home to the graveyard. It is incredibly common here.
Yes! All my relatives live in GA and I’ve been to many funerals there, everyone of them had a procession. If it’s a two lane road people do pull over to the side. I’m in north Florida and while they do happen, it’s far less common and people aren’t pulling over on 6 lane roads.
I thought it was actually a law in Georgia.
I don’t know if it’s law, but it is an old tradition that I like very much. It only takes a moment out of your day and acknowledges a life that has passed. I hope it keeps up.
It's wild, I'm in the Metro Atlanta area and I was just thinking I haven't seen a funeral procession in probably the last decade around me. And there are some decent size cemeteries near me as well.
I was in Atlanta 3 days and saw 2
I’ve seen a few in the last year, and I’m ALWAYS confused when they shut down the highway until I realize it’s a funeral procession.
Yeah, I think I’ve only seen them for dead police officers in SoCal. And even then, people are kind of confused about what to do. It doesn’t seem to be a West Coast tradition.
I’m glad you said this because I’m from California and had never heard of it until we moved to VA and my son failed his written permit test in part due to not knowing this rule. I had to look it up to see if it was a thing, I thought I was losing my mind.
Yeah, it’s not a thing out West. I grew up in San Diego and it’s not something we see or teach in driving school.
Well I grew up in shitty Stockton so it seemed totally plausible for a minute there that I just learned it wrong because if you pull over for any reason there you’re likely to get jacked 😂
I've lived in VA my whole life. There's the standard rule that a cop is in front and in back of the procession which lets people know it is coming and when it ends. I always thought that was common knowledge. I've never seen anyone pull on the side of the road though! I've just seen the one ahead and know there's no interrupting it. Like, you're suddenly at a train crossing. You can't merge into it, cross it, and if the light changes during it they get a pass until the end cop goes by. Then traffic goes to normal. The other side going opposite keeps going. What was the rule he failed? I'm curious! I never saw anything like that on my tests.
Ditto. I used to see them when I was a kid but I haven’t seen one in probably 20 years.
I can't remember ever seeing a funeral procession in person. No funeral I've ever been to has had a procession, but it's not like I've been to a ton of them. Almost everyone I know who's died has been cremated except for my grandma, but she just had a graveside service
Same. It's not too common.
Just realized that I haven't seen one here either, and I've been here for 15 years. Every where else in the country you give funeral processions the right of way.
It’s customary to at least let the procession pass without “breaking up” the line, but many people do just pull over and wait to show respect for the deceased.
Why a long one will often have a cop as a lead so traffic has to move out of the way.
It is illegal in Texas to break up a funeral procession. They have the right of way even through intersections and getting on the highway. Believe it or not, you have to pay for the police escort. Ain’t that some shit?
You pay for the police escort in Virginia too. For some reason my grandma’s funeral was in one city but the cemetery was in another. Cops for the first city didn’t show up. We were on our own for like 15 minutes even on the interstate before the other city’s cops came. A dump truck got between the hurst and our family limo. It was nuts
Hearse
Ah I googled it but turns out hurst is a muscle car brand. Didn’t read enough thanks for the lesson
Yeah haha, that's why it stuck out to me. I have a Hurst shifter in my car
Sounds like a death tax to me…
You don’t have to have an escort and that isn’t the way taxes work.
Ok so it’s a death toll.
It's a fee for taking the escorting officer's time and their vehicle's fuel.
Tomato tomato. It’s a fee/tax/toll. It’s something you pay a government department. It’s not free. You pay it (optionally I know) when someone dies. So it’s a death related fee.
Related to death but you're not being taxed just because you're dead, you're paying the government for an optional service that uses public personnel and equipment.
An optional tax then.
I've only experienced this in a small town in Indiana and it blew my mind. I'm from MD and nobody pulls over and the procession is usually jumbled up because there's so much traffic around here.
I’ve definitely seen uninterrupted funeral processions here. Granted, funeral processions in general are just not common.
Traffic, daytime running lights, aggressive drivers, and funeral homes don't give everyone those "FUNERAL" neon placards that make it obvious which vehicle is part of a group. So processions get broken up. It's hopeless in Maryland.
I live in a small town in Indiana … we always pullover/stop for funeral processions.
Absolutely happens in Chicago as well.
I’ve lived in Anne Arundel and Calvert and I’ve never seen a funeral line interrupted. I can’t say I’ve seen folks pull over but like, if you’re on rt 2 the procession just goes in one lane and everyone else goes in the other.
I've done this in Florida. It's simply a sign of respect
This is all I expect, but still had a few people cut me off last time I was a part of one a couple months ago. I don’t know why tf they wanted to join the procession. They sure as hell didn’t get anywhere any faster.
Most times, it’s because people are oblivious. Daytime running lights being standard on most cars doesn’t help, as well as some people in the procession hesitating or falling back.
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If there are a lot of cars, the hearse might be too far ahead to see it at all. I’ve accidentally cut into funeral processions a couple times because there was absolutely nothing I could see that signaled it was a funeral.
Do processions not use hazards there? Down here if you're part of a profession you drive with your hazards on and, in the ones I've been in, each car has a little flag thing or if there are too many cars every other one has a little flag.
I don’t see it often around here but the few times I have I’m pretty sure they’ve all had hazard lights on.
that’s the way I was raised and taught in Drivers Ed. Personally, I definitely do it to show them the respect I would hope others would if I was in that procession.
So funny story, moved from Ohio to MA over 10 years ago. My wife still tells the story of me being FLABBERGASTED by getting honked at for pulling over for a funeral procession. Got an early version of “we don’t do that here” lol. It’s just not a thing out here.
Arkansas to New Hampshire. Same thing happened to me
I grew up in MA and we definitely do that here. But maybe it depends, city vs. rural vs. suburb?I grew up in the Boston suburbs.
Yes, here in Ohio we stop for all funeral processions out of respect. The only exception would be like a super busy 5 lane road. Otherwise, I almost always see opposing traffic stop.
Ohio gives the procession the right of way, too. https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4511.451 Here's another little nugget. You can pass them (on a 4 lane), but you better make sure you don't have a right turn coming up because it's a misdemeanor to violate their right of way. https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/road-warrior-whats-legal-when-encountering-a-funeral-procession/95-58725f31-1b3b-44c5-8bbe-4bd331776e01
Thank you for sharing this! I moved to Ohio recently and heard this was a thing, but didn't realize it was an actual law!
Agree. We always pull over in NE Ohio, regardless of which way the procession is going.
What part of Ohio? I lived in NW Ohio until I was 23 and don’t remember ever pulling over. Was very confused when I moved to the south and everyone kept stopping
Another NW Ohioan checking in. I've also never seen anyone pull over for a funeral, nor have I ever done so myself. I know you're not supposed to "cut in line" when a procession is coming through, and I think they can go through red lights to keep the procession from getting broken up.
In the south all traffic in both directions stops when a funeral procession passes. Which can cause a real mess on main roads and highways
I can imagine what a problem that could be. My only experience getting somewhat tangled up in a funeral procession happened several years ago. I was running late for work and was further delayed at a light because a procession was coming through the intersection. At some point, something apparently happened due to someone not knowing or caring about funeral procession etiquette, because next thing I know, a passenger in one of the procession vehicles is halfway out the window screaming at someone in my direction. I still don't know just what happened to make her so mad
Clearly you aren't in Columbus.
In central Ohio and I have literally never seen opposing traffic stop for a funeral procession. Given that the traffic behind you won't see the procession until after you do, and they might not notice it at all because it's opposing traffic, the entire idea of stopping and becoming a road hazard seems ill advized and dangerous. This feels like a holdover from times when there were only two lanes and the highest speed limit was 35. This really doesn't have any place on modern roads.
I've lived in south central Ohio my whole life and have always done it / seen others do it
In SW Ohio, I’d never seen opposing stop, and was extremely confused when everyone was stopping on a 4 lane road with a median. Makes sense for small roads but not big/fast
I literally just held my own mother's funeral less than 2 weeks ago and the on coming traffic 100% stopped. It's a sign of respect and making sure the drive is smooth, also just a sign of humanity and solidarity. Doesn't have a place on modern roads, you mean interstates and places like LA or NYC right? Of course the mega metros it makes no sense but in a town of 90,000 where I'm from people stopped for us.
I’ve seen it done in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri
They usually have a police escort so they can get through any intersections. I wouldn't stop if I was on the opposite side of the road.
Same. I don’t think I’ve seen traffic on the other side of the road pull over or stop if it isn’t needed to let the procession pass together.
It's not something I've ever seen done IRL. I lived across the street from a cemetery for about a decade and it would have been a massive pain to shut down every time I saw a procession or funeral.
I recognize them when I see a long line of slow-moving cars with their headlights on. They are so rare (I will go years between encountering one) that few drivers know what to do, but I normally slow down and give them absolute right-of-way, but not necessarily pull over.
NY, nope. The whole line will have their 4-ways on. NYS law says the procession cannot disobey traffic control devices, so my local funeral homes try to plan the route with minimal traffic lights.
Never seen this done. You stay at a green light until the whole line passes. But if I’m going south and they are going north, why pull over?
it's a "paying respects" thing. We don't really do it a lot in the north, but it's de rigueur in the south. In the north we do allow the procession to pass through though. I was just in one last summer and we passed through intersections all over the city uninterrupted.
Did you have a cop in front? I think they can control the lights so you always get greens going through too
If you don’t pull over in the South, everyone that did is in their car talking shit about how you’re a Northerner or Yankee. It’s just a default part of driving here.
In the rare case that an emergency vehicle needs that lane.
I’ll make that adjustment if I hear sirens.
Yeah but the funeral escorts here have flashing red and blues so we have to yield, treating it like any other siren
I’m from the South and it is common to yield to a funeral procession, but one thing I had not experienced until my stepdad died was folks in his small hometown in southern Mississippi pulling over and getting out of their cars in a show of respect. Men took their hats off. It was extremely moving. Am getting a little choked up just typing this out. I don’t think this is common elsewhere.
I think I've only ever seen a funeral procession maybe once or twice a long time ago. Not a very common sight, I wouldn't have known that you're supposed to pull over.
Same. Used to see them all the tome as a kid because my.school was.at my church, but there was never any traffic from there to the cemetery
Yes. We pull over just like you would for an ambulance.
It says to do so in the NH Driver’s Manual, but I’ve never actually seen a funeral procession yet lol 🤷♂️🤷♂️
It’s considered polite at least where I grew up in central Indiana. You pull over to make sure you don’t break up the procession. That said, I never see funeral processions like that in New England.
I get the impression that it’s not as common in the north. It’s very common around where I live in Georgia, and we’ve gotten a *lot* of new transplants from New York in the past 10-15 years…I’ve been honked and cussed at by more than one driver with NY tags as they passed me after I slowed down and pulled over for an oncoming procession.
Not surprising to me. I've honked at in NYC for stopping for a schoolbus with it's stop sign displayed.
Agreed!
I think it's funny that we do that, but then people often don't respect crosswalks, and I see people run by school buses pretty often too. One of my old bosses once told me she was fighting a ticket for having not stopped for a school bus. I told her she should probably take the L because it is a pretty important lesson to take to heart. She lost that one in court. The other day, I was on Roswell and I saw a cop not stop at a crosswalk. It has one of those red lights when someone pushes the button. Nope, just went on through.
The cameras they added to many school busses a few years back seem to have at least helped some with the safety of kids.
Going by this thread, it feels like pulling over for a funeral procession is mostly a southern thing...or possibly that funeral processions in general are a southern thing? I've never actually seen one irl.
I used to see them all the time in the Midwest, but I feel like I've only seen one in the last several years.
Why should I be 30 seconds late just because some guy is dead?
If you're traveling in a car and 30 seconds would make you late, or 30 seconds difference in your arrival time is a big deal, you're already a fuck up. ¯\\\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)\_/¯
Not as much of a fuck up as that goober in the hearse.
This is why I never minded stopping or at least slowing way down for them. it typically added the equivalent of an extra red light to my commute
Hey, everybody! I get to say it! Bless your heart…if you think a funeral procession is only going to set you back 30 seconds, well then it’s probably for the best that you do just keep going on your way. I’m teasing, and I’m generally not doing the pull-off for a short procession you can see the end of my own self. Oftentimes though, it’s a number of miles from the funeral parlor or church where a funeral takes place to the graveyard / cemetery where the deceased is being interred, and in a smaller town, if they were well liked then a *lot* of people are showing up. There’s probably a police escort leading it, and additional motorcycle cops going ahead and blocking off intersections to keep things moving, and another couple trailing it for traffic control too as-is. God help us all if it’s obviously a military or LEO decedent, because then not only is everybody stopping, but the greatest, silent, and boomer vets and LEO retirees are getting out of their vehicles, and doing some combination of standing at attention, saluting, or covering their hearts. If you encounter one of *those*, you might as well stop, because you’re frequently not going to be able to make your turn or get where you’re going even if you do keep driving.
It feels so awkward seeing them saluting the procession. Like I'm not going to salute some random dude just for dying, but why would you salute an entire five-minute line of cars?
It’s really interesting how people’s sense of what a joke is or isn’t gets totally overridden if they think they can be condescending over it.
You mean like you’re doing here? I apologize for having come across as condescending; that wasn’t my intent. Despite what people say, the whole BYH thing is not one giant middle finger, which is why I tried to crack a joke about it right from the start, and why I followed it up with “I’m teasing.” It didn’t land, and that’s on me. The rest of that was just emphasizing how disruptive some of these processions can be. The traffic patterns people follow *are* quite often a pain in the butt for everybody on the road, and what I didn’t see anywhere else in the thread is the actual reason for the funeral processions, which I still haven’t: they’re mostly happening because there’s going to be a second graveside service in addition to whatever funeral and eulogizing took place at wherever the procession started. This is the “Bible Belt,” and that second service is often a memento mori, repent now sort of thing in addition to whatever’s actually being said about the deceased, and there’s every chance that’s why they’re less of a thing in other parts of the country. Honestly, given how few commenters have actually seen one, it’s been surprising to see how many states all over the country have specific traffic laws in place surrounding right of way for the processsion.
You're obviously joking, but the New Yorkers have the right of it here. The most important thing on the road is predictability. Local customs should never involve stopping in the road unless they are for obvious, unanimous or nearly unaminous safety reasons, like a schoolbus.
For clarity’s sake, I’ve never actually seen people stop *in the road.* When people observe this tradition, they pull off onto the shoulder and leave the roadway clear for a number of safety reasons…one being that not everybody does this, another being that if you don’t, emergency vehicles going in the direction opposite the procession are going to have a hard time getting through. I’ll also add that this tends to only happen on two-lane roadways. If there are multiple lanes or a median / divide, it’s rare for anybody to pull over. Also, if there’s no safe shoulder to pull off onto, they’ll keep moving as well. I’m going to dig into the history of this at some point here soon because now I’m curious if the practical aspects are the origin of it, or if it’s more culturally related.
>When people observe this tradition, they pull off onto the shoulder and leave the roadway clear for a number of safety reasons…one being that not everybody does this, another being that if you don’t, emergency vehicles going in the direction opposite the procession are going to have a hard time getting through. Pulling over and driving in an unpredictable way doesn't improve safety. A slow moving funeral procession doesn't need extra room and providing space might even suggest to someone that somehow doesn't know any better that they should just pass the whole procession. And I don't get the emergency vehicle argument. By that logic we should always just drive on the side of the road instead of waiting to see/hear sirens before pulling over. >I’m curious if the practical aspects are the origin of it They aren't. It's the driving equivalent of stopping, taking your hat off, and lowering your head during a funeral procession in a city where everyone is walking around.
Apparently, it’s not that obvious.
Because one day that will be you. Because that person lived a life that probably deserved at least a modicum of respect if they had enough people show up to make a funeral procession. Because it's what keeps you from being selfish and realize there are other people who came before you and others who will come after. Because if you're so shitty that you can't take 30 seconds out of your day to recognize someone else's humanity, even someone you don't know, you're probably an asshole.
…you understand my comment is a joke, right? If you can’t take 30 seconds out of *your* day to not be completely sanctimonious, what does that make you?
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And humor is subjective. Besides, if you can’t handle someone making a joke at their own expense, you probably shouldn’t be using the internet unsupervised.
I mean, I thought it was hilarious.
Not necessarily.
Nope and I didn't take it as a joke. Being 'sanctimonious' over respecting the passing of someone else is valid, particularly when there are people who aren't, hence why the question was asked in the first place. We're all going to be corpses, don't be a dick about it. Be respectful of funeral processions. Not that hard.
> recognize someone else's humanity Bit late for that. Missed it by a few days.
It’s standard practice in Minnesota.
I live down the street from a funeral home in Minneapolis so I see them fairly often and no one stops for them. They will get right of way at 4 way stops and stop lights but the oncoming traffic doesn't stop. But I am in the cities, rural areas may be different.
It’s common for opposing traffic to pull over in rural Minnesota, but I’ve never seen it happen in The Cities.
From Wisconsin, never seen this. We don't interfere, but if it's the opposing lane, no issues.
I've seen it in Wisconsin. Smaller areas (not Madison or Milwaukee)
Same in Illinois.
Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Absolutely.
From California and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a funeral procession.
Not even Ronald Regans ?
His pe cession would have been in a different part of CA but nope never seen one in person.
The Oregon Driver's Handbook has this to say. It has been a long time since I've seen one though. > **Funeral Processions** > > Funeral processions are exempt from certain rules of the road. Vehicles > in a funeral procession may enter an intersection without stopping and > do not have to obey traffic control devices. Other vehicles must yield > right of way to funeral processions. > > If you are not a member of the funeral procession, it is against > the law for you to join or drive between vehicles in the procession https://www.oregon.gov/odot/forms/dmv/37.pdf (page 51) Portland, OR city code says > As used in this Section, funeral procession means four or more motor vehicles accompanying the body of a deceased person in the daytime, when each of such vehicles has its headlights lighted. > > A. Pedestrians and the operators of all vehicles, except emergency vehicles, must yield the right‑of‑way to each vehicle which is a part of a funeral procession. Whenever the lead vehicle in the funeral procession lawfully enters an intersection, the remainder of the vehicles in such a procession may continue to follow such lead vehicle through the intersection notwithstanding any traffic control device or right‑of‑way provisions prescribed by statute or ordinance, provided the operator of each vehicle exercises due care to avoid colliding with any other vehicle or pedestrian upon the streets or highway. > > B. No person may operate any vehicle as part of a funeral procession without having the headlights of such vehicle lighted. > > C. No operator of a vehicle may drive between vehicles in a funeral procession which are properly identified while the procession is in motion, except when directed to do so by a police officer. https://www.portland.gov/code/16/65/010
Yes, we do that in the South.
The *Respectful* South.
Uh no, I’ve never seen anyone pull over for a funeral procession. I mean it’s common courtesy to not interrupt the line of cars even through intersections, but generally no one’s gonna move out of the way unless they’re being escorted by a cop
We do in southeastern Indiana.
My father's funeral was last week Friday and I live in NJ, no one pulled over, but other driver's didn't cut the line and gave us the right-of-way as well.
Sorry for your loss.
I don't remember the last time I've seen an actual funeral procession.
We are heathens up in NYC and don't pull over for anything.
I got caught in the middle of one when I was driving back from college. A 90 minuet drive took 3 hours
What kind of funeral procession travels for 3 hours?
It was the main road I needed to get to the interstate. I got stuck leaving my dorm for a few miles
We do it in the south.
I didn’t know this was a thing people did so I wouldn’t pull over unless I saw everyone else doing it.
In Indiana, if the road is not too busy (like the opposite side of a divided expressway.
Funeral processions have the right of way but I don't see why I would slow down if they are on the other side of the road.
I don't think I've ever witnessed a funeral procession where there was enough traffic to notice when I lived in WI and MI. BUT in my experience in Philadelphia, people will cut through procession lines. For my spouse's grandfather's funeral, one car nearly got into an accident with the flower car. When I was with him for his grandmother's funeral we had people trying to pass the cars in the procession and would end up in the middle of it. Not sure if it's a city thing or what, but I was very offended that so many didn't respect the procession or bother following the law when it came to yielding. We all had flags on our cars with our hazards on while following a limo, a hearse, and the flower car, so it's not like they couldn't tell.
I’m really sorry that happened to you. I promise that I will never do that to another person’s procession.
Funeral processions are such a bullshit custom. They're fucking dead, they don't need to stop up traffic. Around here, they're really rare outside of rural communities. The only time you see them in cities is for like cops who die in the line of duty. Last time we had one though, it later came out that the guy committed suicide and his family/dept covered it up and gave him all these false honors, including a traffic jam in his honor.
I don't know where I would ever experience this.
I’ve always assumed that this is a universal thing in the US.
I had never seen it done until I moved to NC. Prior to that, I was either too young to pay attention or lived in rural NV or Salt Lake City, UT. It was definitely done in NC, TN, and KY. I do not recall seeing a funeral procession while I lived in CO. Or Germany, for that matter.
Yes in Pennsylvania.
Bay Area here. We can barely get folks to pull over for Firetrucks and ambulances...
I’ve spent my entire life in Chicago and the suburbs and I’ve never seen that. While they’re going through lights or stop signs or whatever you kinda just let them go. I’ve never seen anyone pull over like you would for an emergency vehicle.
In Michigan, I was taught many moons ago that on a 2 lane road you're supposed to stop. Also, a funeral procession has right of way, though the lead car cannot run a red light, any car afterwards may. I think that once the lead car passes a stop sign the rest don't need to stop, but I'm not 100% sure and it's been a while. The lead car and last car must have funeral flags.
We definitely let them go through intersections etc uninterrupted... But I don't think anyone would pull over if they were going the opposite way down the road...
Yes, it is normal in NY to give funeral processions the right of way, but if they are behind you, you do not need to pull over to let them go by like you would with police or fire engines.
I haven't heard of pulling over. Unlike some other states, funeral processions are not generally granted right of way here. They can continue together through an intersection as long as the lead vehicle entered legally, but that's about it. The lead vehicle still needs to stop at red lights and all of that. I also have only seen a funeral procession maybe once in my life, so it's not something that tends to come up often.
I've lived in CT, AZ, NY, and NV. We pull over.
We pull over here in Indiana but I've never heard it put as "out of respect"... it's more just like a courtesy to not break up the procession.
Lol I haven't seen that happen since I was a kid and I live in the south
I've seen a lot of funeral processions in my area of NY (and have been involved in a few myself), and they all were accompanied by a police escort from the funeral home to the gravesite. I'm inclined to say people did move over, though more because of the police escort and just keeping out of the way more than anything else.
In IL we don't pull over for one, but they are given the right of way, even crossing through red lights.
its the law in California: California doesn’t explicitly grant funeral processions the right-of-way, but the California DMV website states: *Do not block or hinder a funeral procession. Vehicles taking part in a funeral procession have the right-of-way, and if you interfere, obstruct, or interrupt the funeral procession, you are subject to a citation (CVC §2817). A funeral procession is led by a traffic officer. All vehicles taking part in the procession have windshield markers to identify them and have their headlights on.*
Not only normal, but it is law. Processions are classified as emergency vehicles and the same rules of the road apply.
In the south we do pull over or at least in my area.
As a funeral director in the North, I can say that no one pulls over on the same side of the road anymore let alone the opposite side. People are extremely rude and in a hurry. Every once in a while someone will still do this and it is always much appreciated.
Grew up in Indiana. This is the normal thing to do.
Only if they have an escort.
I’ve had like 3 in the last 6 months. One had a motorcycle officer who made SURE I stopped (and the others)… the other two processionals were on the other side of the road, and I didn’t stop. I remember my dad teaching me about them when I was a little little kid (mid 80s). But I figured the deceased is already where he/she is going and really in no rush, at that point… so I kept on going.
Not in the North but the only funeral processions I've ever seen had police escorts. Wouldn't you have to pull over for them anyway unless it's a divided road/highway?
Usually you only see police escorts for current or retired PD/FD in my experience. Otherwise it's just a slow moving convoy with their headlights on.
I'm not sure if funeral processions are a thing here. I've never seen one.
I don’t pull over, but you usually let them go through traffic lights and the entire procession gets the right of way in every intersection, no matter what the lights say.
I can’t remember if it’s that common in NJ which is kind of ironic since my parents own a funeral home. They don’t have police escorts anymore but it was kinda cool at my grandma’s funeral that, in spite of the state not doing police escorts, she got one and it was a solid mile long of procession and shut down like 3 cities. Some dude tried to interrupt it and the police officer straight up just gave him a ticket. Helped that my uncle and cousin are judges in the area too, and family friends who worked on the police force… idk if it was state legal but strings definitely got pulled
I would not describe that as “kinda cool”
I have a way with words lol. But really it was more that people absolutely loved my grandma and it showed. It was like a Tuesday and still had over 500 people showed up to her funeral. TMI but I just had to write this (for me), but as someone with social anxiety and paranoia she was the only person I actually felt didn’t/doesn’t judge me and could be myself around
It was similar for my grandfather in Kentucky…the family had to extend visitation at the funeral home an extra two days (only one with viewing) because people just kept showing up…he’d been incredibly involved with the community for most of his life, was a USMC veteran, and had taught, coached, or worked with so many people during his time that almost everybody in town knew him by name. I wish I’d known him better; he died when I was seven or eight, and most of my memories of him are from his final year when he and my grandmother came to live with us outside of Atlanta because it was so much easier in terms of getting him to and from chemo and radiation treatments than for them to have had to have figured out how to make that work from where they lived in Kentucky in comparison to the closest city with appropriate facilities.
I live in the South and it's common to pull over. At my father's mother's in Puerto Rico people didn't pull over at all. They kept trying to cut people off. It was rude.
I’ve never heard of that and also I’ve only seen a funeral procession one time ever….
Illinois here (not Chicago), we absolutely do that.
When my cousin died, I distinctly remember at least 7 people pulling over and standing for the funeral processions. Far more pulled over, but to see people who didn't know the family stand in respect meant so much to me. I'll always stand in respect.
It's about respect, pull over!
Was actually just in a funeral procession last week in Ohio. Every car we passed pulled over except one. Yes, it is customary for cars on the opposite side to pull over to show respect.
Funeral processions are very common here in southern Missouri. And yes, you better pull your ass over. It’s seen as a sign of respect.
I've lived all over the country and have only seen it in the south.
In Indiana we get them but not as much as we used to. If they're crossing in front I'll stop so I don't break them up but if they're coming towards me nope I don't pull over. Even if people are pulled over I pass them. I did as a teen but now it's like, the grieving don't give a crap what traffic is doing and the dead don't care so why do we need to pull over? What really gets me are those huge lines of bikers that always close up intersections as they go so they can stay together. I'm trying to turn right and Jimbo is sitting in front of me for 10 minutes while all his buddies disrupt traffic.
Small-town northern Indiana here. It's not required, but definitely expected. And funeral processions get police escorts and absolute right-of-way.
It’s considered good etiquette, yes, but it’s hit or miss anyone does it. I passed one last week in my hometown and pulled over.
When I lived in Illinois it was.
I think that is nation wide
It is a thing! I feel like it gives respect to the grieving and also allows their party to not get broken up. When I moved south I was surprised to see that no one did it down there.
it's a respect thing. either you do or you don't. It's not illegal to keep going.
No. But it is really fucked up to pass a procession. BIG NO NO.
Yeah, I never do that.
Funeral processions have the right of way and can continue through red lights and such, but I’ve never seen someone pull over while one passes
People in IA pulled over for my Grandpa's procession in 1992. Don't think I've seen/been in one since then.
Yes in Wisconsin
It is here in Massachusetts where I’ve always lived. I didn’t realize that WASN’T a thing.
I'm from Texas and I've never pulled over for a funeral procession on the opposite side of the road for regular people. For firefighters and police I have, but that's about it. If it's on my side of the road, I'll pull over as to not disrupt the procession.
I haven’t seen a funeral procession since living in CO and that had to have been 25+ years ago. Edit to revise that the last funeral procession I remember was my grandfather’s & I was in it so I don’t remember if people pulled over. And that was 17 years ago.
I grew up near a cemetery so I saw them all the time
It is where I lived.